This was the only true tie in Academy Award history. In 1932, Wallace Beery and Fredric March technically tied because they were only separated by one vote. Hepburn shared the award with Barbra Streisand.

The Best Original Screenplay Oscar was first given out in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Best Original Story Oscar (which select films will air on Day 16). In 1957, the Story and Screenplay awards were combined to honor only the screenplay.

The Best Adapted Screenplay award has had many different names over the years, including Best Screenplay, Best Writing, Best Writing-Adaptation, Best Screenplay-Based on Another Medium. Why couldn’t they just call it Best Adapted Screenplay and be done with it?

The first woman to win in this category was Frances Marion, all the way back in 1930.

Random Harvest

(1942-6:45am/5:45am)

Oscar Nominations

Best Screenplay-George Froeschel, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis, based on the novel by James Hilton

Amnesiac WWI vet finds love, marries, and starts a family. Vet is hit by a car and regains his past memories, but forgets his amnesia memories, including his wife and newborn son. Better than it sounds.

Between 1947 and 1955, the Academy gave out special awards to foreign language films released in the United States. The category was created in 1956 with La Strada winning. Unlike other Oscars, the Best Foreign Language Film is not presented to a specific person, but to the country as a whole. In 2014, the Academy changed the rules so that director of the film gets to keep the statuette. France leads the packs with 39 nominations, but Italy has the most wins with 14.